City of Oakland: Deputy City Attorney III, Labor & Employment (Open until Filled)
Salary Range:
Deputy City Attorney III: $161,500.68 to 198,299.88 annually
Benefits: Health, dental, vision, pension, hybrid work-from-home, and other competitive benefits
Click Here for More Information and How to Apply: https://fbanc.org/s/DCA-III-Announcment-Labor-and-Employment-January-8_2025-kj8g.pdf
The Position
The Oakland City Attorney’s Office seeks a well-qualified individual to join our office’s labor & employment advisory unit. The incumbent will be exposed to a wide range of personnel matters across a variety of City’s departments, with an emphasis on police personnel matters including accountability and public-safety reform.
Duties will include, but will not be limited to: working collaboratively with other attorneys, City staff, and City leadership to analyze labor and employment issues and resolve disputes; advising City investigators and Department heads on employee-misconduct, due process, and related grievances, including advising on police-officer investigations and discipline; representing the City in administrative hearings to resolve labor and/or employment disputes; drafting and reviewing opinions, legislation, contracts and other legal documents which require the application of labor law and/or employment law.
This position is represented by International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 21. The incumbent may receive general supervision from a Deputy City Attorney V, Special Counsel, Chief Assistant City Attorney or the City Attorney. The City Attorney may assign the selected attorney to new, additional or different duties or practice areas in litigation, advice or transactional work.
About the Office
The City Attorney’s Office provides advice and counsel to the Mayor, City Council, and all City departments, boards and commissions in a wide variety of areas including land use, real estate, personnel, elections, conflicts of interest, municipal finance, retirement, housing, public contracting and economic development. The City Attorney’s Office also advocates for the City’s interests in claims and lawsuits litigated in state or federal court, including high-value personal injury cases, complex civil rights actions, breach of contract, personnel disputes, eminent domain actions, inverse condemnation and alleged Constitutional violations.
The Office has approximately 80 employees and three divisions: Advisory, Litigation, and Operations. The work is high profile, dynamic, collaborative, and complex. And the work is of vital importance to the City’s realization of its progressive and cutting-edge policies and programs, and to the City’s delivery of services to Oakland’s residents and businesses. The office currently allows for a flexible, hybrid in-office / work-from-home schedule.
